#DebateThis - Should the use of surveillance cameras in public places be increased?
There's a police run drone program where they have a seven day a week operation that covers Beverly Hills from the air and they're also installing automatic license plate readers in city parking garages and at every major intersection in and out of the city. You'd be pretty hard pressed to go online right now and see somebody talking about the city of Los Angeles in a way that didn't acknowledge the rising crime rates around the entire city from downtown La. To the Metro to the suburbs
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:36
Hey, Taylor, thanks for this question. It's very specific. You're asking about an increase in an already existing network of cameras. I think once it's there, the increase means nothing. I mean, sure, you can have you have a hundred, you can have 200. For me, the debate is the existence of them at all. And we talk about our personal privacy, but we also talk about our personal safety. Specific to Beverly Hills. It's an braided city
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 4:41
So, yeah, I am team. Increased surveillance. I do get that sometimes increased surveillance can stab you in the back. You can get caught up in things that were completely not your fault, but just because the camera shows you something and not the rest of it. Yeah, but I'm going to say that I am for Team Increased Surveillance because, let's face it, the inequality issue, unless that is addressed, it's going the crime thing, it's going to get worse
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
River Hunter Wiley
@riverhunter87 · 4:32
And so that is way more intrusive and way more important than cracking down on crime. And so I think 261 cameras in a small city in the middle of Nowhere, Ohio, that's an issue. I know you're talking mostly about Beverly Hills, but my thoughts are just as a general thing, I think that the increase in cameras, the saying that it is to crack down on crime, although that does help a little, is just a mask to allow more surveillance
Renee 🪬
@RensLens · 3:33
And then smartphones I don't even know what the real meaning is of right to privacy anymore. But between the smartphones, our Alexas, our ring cameras and I'm guilty, too. I have ring cameras. The point is to monitor the coming and goings of our teenagers. But it haphazardly picks up all kinds of stuff. And the first thing that happens when there's a crime in our town is all the neighbors ask everybody to check their ring cameras. And that even happens now
Hey. A lot of excellent responses here already, and I agree with so much of what was said. Personally, I think that people are using crime as an excuse for increased surveillance, even though I don't believe that that is the reason why we would have more surveillance implemented. And Renee, like you, you know, I sort of feel kind of weird about it in general because absolutely not do I want there to be more surveillance
I didn't even realize how extensive that system was in China until the COVID because they had a team that would get out there and have like a three to five minute response time and go everywhere where this person was at in the city. How do they know that he was on camera since he got out of bed? It's unbelievable. And then again, why would you want cameras when all you had to do is say a word?
Bulk mail subsidies is big money, and the more I'm looking, I'm like, if it was a person, I might not want them for a neighbor. Sometimes it just feels filthy. What are we doing? Sitting around trying to figure out whose life matters, and meanwhile, they break it down. The Constitution like a lawn chair, and we need to be coming together and not on any mike. I'm not going to say haves and have not, but it could be that way
Trudy Rech
@TBR · 1:21
However, I understand why some people might think it would be a good idea. It's just there are so many unintended consequences. Anyway, I just wanted you to know you have another fan. Take care and thank you